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"unseal" poems
in the secluded shell             of night    crimson lips unseal                                                                     cosmic stillness stirred    flower ripples tinted     with touches tender       on quivering skin                                                                           in moon’s breast      burns a fire tonight the primeval fire of passion               in it melt                  crystals of our emotions                pristine               a night-sky             bliss-soaked              bejeweled   stars hanging complicit
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Aug 23, 2017
Aug 23, 2017 at 11:49 AM UTC
unison
Hello Poetry Yearned. Ached. For so long, for a community, That values the ineffable wonder Of a wordsmith's creations, intended to Repair himself and the world with bullets of Verses. And here you are. Like/Dislike, matters not, So long as we value each others work, And the the heart echoes within What the eyes read and the mouth whispers. The array and disparity of your names, A delight, Each name a poem In its own right. So I resubmit a question for your consideration, The answer is now known, The answer is all of us. May 2013 --------------------------------------------------------- Who's Who In Poetry   T'is a curious thing, these verbal peddlers, tribal members, famously well known to no one, perhaps at best, a kindred few, fellow-travelers. Each a troop, bloodied, purple hearted, word-wounded, anonymous unto each other, yet all bonded intimates, in solitary struggle united, yet sea-parted by the very nature of the solitude of composition. All poets are Cain scar-marked, purposed for everyone to see, a warning to rabbled boors, imagination suppressors! World: cherish these flawed ones, gentle these frail but gritty, the Lord has tasked them to be prophets in one tongue untied, undo the strife of Babel's division. Poets! Be the harpooners of the unexamined life, with unfettered rhapsody, comfort caress us, exhort the loopy to light their illusionary candles, turn the sad eyed lowlanders into crinkly eye-lined smilers. With clinical observation, dense and demanding, make us laugh at the comedy of our situation, teach us our free-to-see peep show, reveal, unseal us with **** empathy! For who's who in poetry is all of us! saviors and failures, recorders and decoders, night writers of the oohs and aahs of dreams and nightmares. When this poet cannot, no longer, anymore, tastes his poems upon your lips, keep your poems within his heart, then he breathes no more, and becomes one who was, yet is, because of you, in poetry. --------------- Postscript (1/25/17) Even more true today, than four years ago. Thank You.
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May 22, 2013
May 22, 2013 at 1:40 PM UTC
Hello Poetry! Who's Who In Poetry (May 2013)
Hello Poetry Yearned. Ached. For so long, for a community, That values the ineffable wonder Of a wordsmith's creations, intended to Repair himself and the world with bullets of Verses. And here you are. Like/Dislike, matters not, So long as we value each others work, And the the heart echoes within What the eyes read and the mouth whispers. The array and disparity of your names, A delight, Each name a poem In its own right. So I resubmit a question for your consideration, The answer is now known, The answer is all of us. May 2013 --------------------------------------------------------- Who's Who In Poetry   T'is a curious thing, these verbal peddlers, tribal members, famously well known to no one, perhaps at best, a kindred few, fellow-travelers. Each a troop, bloodied, purple hearted, word-wounded, anonymous unto each other, yet all bonded intimates, in solitary struggle united, yet sea-parted by the very nature of the solitude of composition. All poets are Cain scar-marked, purposed for everyone to see, a warning to rabbled boors, imagination suppressors! World: cherish these flawed ones, gentle these frail but gritty, the Lord has tasked them to be prophets in one tongue untied, undo the strife of Babel's division. Poets! Be the harpooners of the unexamined life, with unfettered rhapsody, comfort caress us, exhort the loopy to light their illusionary candles, turn the sad eyed lowlanders into crinkly eye-lined smilers. With clinical observation, dense and demanding, make us laugh at the comedy of our situation, teach us our free-to-see peep show, reveal, unseal us with **** empathy! For who's who in poetry is all of us! saviors and failures, recorders and decoders, night writers of the oohs and aahs of dreams and nightmares. When this poet cannot, no longer, anymore, tastes his poems upon your lips, keep your poems within his heart, then he breathes no more, and becomes one who was, yet is, because of you, in poetry. --------------- Postscript (1/25/17) Even more true today, than four years ago. Thank You.
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All love must end Lovers are doomed But don't unseal this secret tomb while wedding bells are still in bloom and we lie fast in our small womb
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Aug 10, 2010
Aug 10, 2010 at 5:27 AM UTC
Honeymoon Song
T'is a curious thing, these verbal peddlers, these tribal members, famously well known to no one, perhaps at best, a kindred few, fellow-travelers. Each a troop, in the army of orphans, bloodied, purple hearted, word-wounded, anonymous unto each other, yet all bonded intimates, in solitary struggle united, yet sea-parted by the very nature of the solitude of composition. All poets are Cain scar-marked, purposed for everyone to see, a warning to the rabbled boors, the imagination suppressors! World: cherish these flawed ones, gentle these frail but gritty, the Lord has tasked them to be prophets in one tongue untied, undo the strife of Babel's division. Poets! Be the harpooners of the unexamined life, with unfettered rhapsody, comfort caress us, exhort the loopy to light their illusionary candles, turn the sad eyed lowlanders into crinkly eye-lined smilers. With clinical observation, dense and demanding, make us laugh at the comedy of our situation, teach us our free-to-see peep show, reveal, unseal us with **** empathy! For who's who in poetry is all of us! saviors and failures, recorders and decoders, night writers of the oohs and aahs of dreams and nightmares. *When this poet cannot, no longer, anymore, taste his poems upon your lips, keep your poems within his heart, then he breathes no more, becoming one who was, yet still is, because of you,* because of poetry.
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Feb 22, 2016
Feb 22, 2016 at 4:53 PM UTC
Orphans and Poets, Peddlers & Members
Whence came his feet into my field, and why? How is it that he sees it all so drear? How do I see his seeing, and how hear The name his bitter silence knows it by? This was the little fold of separate sky Whose pasturing clouds in the soul’s atmosphere Drew living light from one continual year: How should he find it lifeless? He, or I? Lo! this new Self now wanders round my field, With plaints for every flower, and for each tree A moan, the sighing wind’s auxiliary: And o’er sweet waters of my life, that yield Unto his lips no draught but tears unseal’d, Even in my place he weeps. Even I, not he.
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He And I
As the moon shines I see nothing, No lights, no people, only darkness. I wonder if I have become blind, With eyes wide I stare. I wish for light, but receive only shadows, They tower over me and I fear, Why has this happened? Is this a dream? Nothing has ever terrified me more. Through quaint eyes appears a figure, Luminous Have I awoken? Or is this still a dream? I become frigid, stiffened with distress. Alas, the sight becomes clearer, Wider still my eyes unseal, It is magnificent, beautiful, and breath-taking. The sight is you.
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May 24, 2010
May 24, 2010 at 7:57 PM UTC
Sight
• *You’ve unseal all chains that keep my windows shut, Open it valorously, And let the sunshine in, You let illumination enter my soul and detonate light that vivify my slumbered happiness,* **You came, my knight in shining armor! Oh, how you save me from my pitch-black world!** *You draw near and kneel in front of me, As the light from the opened windows brush your countenance, I saw your feet from below, Scintillating, For you are heavenly armored, Your left hand wrap around my neck, And your right hand lift my chin, Tears gush out from my eyes as your lips press against mine passionately,* Love spark between us, I found my refuge in you from that very moment, Assurance envelop and hope flourish within me. *You offered your hand to lead me the way, You walk gaily with me while holding my hand tightly, My eyes are affix to you, with only your visage I can see a glimpse of heaven, You’ve welcome me in your paradise! I was in such elation and you colored my eyes with lustrous hue.* *You guide me through the rhythm of your genuine love, I dance and sway with you as your love enter and penetrate me from within,* Our smiles stroke the skies with beauteous tints and limn rainbows from it. *You tour me to the garden of your love, And yellow flowers fill the surroundings, They bloom as we pass through them, For our happiness spread seeds in the land, And our love make them grow.* Then you carry me to the sea, **And storms start to rage out, Winds blew to its extremity, Demons are starting their travail to us, To separate us through agonizing excruciation !** *But we enfold each other tightly and lock fingers together, We tread dauntlessly into the sea, As God walk together with us, Storms calm and the sun rise up and gleam in us, For our love creates peace, and brings exhilaration and serenity.* *We gleefully celebrate the victory of our love, We stride to the mountains and soar high into the skies, We lie down in the clouds and stare at the moon and the twinkling stars,* **I lean my head into your chest and your arms wrap around me, I stretch my arms, hug you firmly, We delightfully cuddle, And my legs lock against yours, My hair together became our blanket, With the euphonious sound of your heartbeat, I fell asleep in your loving embrace, And with the moonlight gleaming to us,** We dream, TOGETHER. with love <3 © Earl Jane ♥ E.J.C.S.
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Oct 4, 2015
Oct 4, 2015 at 10:27 AM UTC
Dreaming Together In Each Other’s Arms
• *You’ve unseal all chains that keep my windows shut, Open it valorously, And let the sunshine in, You let illumination enter my soul and detonate light that vivify my slumbered happiness,* **You came, my knight in shining armor! Oh, how you save me from my pitch-black world!** *You draw near and kneel in front of me, As the light from the opened windows brush your countenance, I saw your feet from below, Scintillating, For you are heavenly armored, Your left hand wrap around my neck, And your right hand lift my chin, Tears gush out from my eyes as your lips press against mine passionately,* Love spark between us, I found my refuge in you from that very moment, Assurance envelop and hope flourish within me. *You offered your hand to lead me the way, You walk gaily with me while holding my hand tightly, My eyes are affix to you, with only your visage I can see a glimpse of heaven, You’ve welcome me in your paradise! I was in such elation and you colored my eyes with lustrous hue.* *You guide me through the rhythm of your genuine love, I dance and sway with you as your love enter and penetrate me from within,* Our smiles stroke the skies with beauteous tints and limn rainbows from it. *You tour me to the garden of your love, And yellow flowers fill the surroundings, They bloom as we pass through them, For our happiness spread seeds in the land, And our love make them grow.* Then you carry me to the sea, **And storms start to rage out, Winds blew to its extremity, Demons are starting their travail to us, To separate us through agonizing excruciation !** *But we enfold each other tightly and lock fingers together, We tread dauntlessly into the sea, As God walk together with us, Storms calm and the sun rise up and gleam in us, For our love creates peace, and brings exhilaration and serenity.* *We gleefully celebrate the victory of our love, We stride to the mountains and soar high into the skies, We lie down in the clouds and stare at the moon and the twinkling stars,* **I lean my head into your chest and your arms wrap around me, I stretch my arms, hug you firmly, We delightfully cuddle, And my legs lock against yours, My hair together became our blanket, With the euphonious sound of your heartbeat, I fell asleep in your loving embrace, And with the moonlight gleaming to us,** We dream, TOGETHER. with love <3 © Earl Jane ♥ E.J.C.S.
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You are free to read Free to feel Free to analyze Free to unseal You have the right To hear through your mind's eye But you have no right To judge and criticize Yes, we are writers We are poets We are here to express We are not puppets For I am a writer And I want to show Every kind of story That one must need to know When I say "I" It wouldn't always means "me" It could be someone Can't you hear and see? I am just me See it with your mind's eye A writer that is free Unless you woudn't try...
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Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014 at 9:55 PM UTC
Freedom
every other girl is being chased by the short hand of midnight to leave their prince charming before the stroke of twelve and arrive home as normal ladies sleeping with the memory of their trysts under their pillows and inside their dazed minds unknown to their families and even their animal friends hiding away in secret gardens i struggle a few hours earlier than them singing for a love unsure to break my curse before the dusk seeks my soul and drags me down to the depths of turbulent undercurrents where memories are drowned by time and space and only the noise of rushing water clashing against cold blood can be heard i must find this love from one above the land where his kiss will unseal the words of my hand and i think i've found this love so true but how am i even able to swim to him when he only lives and shines in the dim --when he's the man who's of the moon?
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Nov 5, 2016
Nov 5, 2016 at 7:43 AM UTC
before the dusk
A girl, there is, Random, Known and observed Seldom. Eyes of her's stare, lost and straight, Dunno for what sight, they patiently wait. Her Hands are always closed, To hold them noone's forced. But when they slowly unseal, Tremble in her slender fingers starts to reveal. Sometimes she closes her eyes, When its hard to hold tears. They flow like pearls from oyster, I imagine to form, from them, a cluster. And sew them using the golden sunrays, My fingers wish to caress her face. Every step of her's stumbles, Her eyes depict, how with every beat her heart crumbles.! I silently slide my fingers into hers while on a walk with her by the promenade, She smiles, struggling with all her effort, sipping lemonade. Her voice seems to have lost in the incidents of the past, Her face, agony, casts. I wish sometimes to find the deathly hallows, But they clearly concluded in the film what follows. Leaving that thought I pray to god to not seperate love from its lover, Without sun's existence, won't it be hard to survive for Sunflower.? Filled with void I too sometimes shed tears with her, Ill never leave your hand, but, for once, just let go, dear little sister.
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Apr 14, 2014
Apr 14, 2014 at 7:25 AM UTC
Dear Little Sister
*Bygones are bygones Another chance to unseal the current Don't bemoan over what's missed Wield and shield What you have to generate fun Step ahead to perfection Learn, learn, and learn From everything and everyone On this note welcome 2015 May this year bring you Felicitous moments umpteen*
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Jan 1, 2015
Jan 1, 2015 at 11:06 PM UTC
WeLcOmE
Opens with some lucidity after the world has gone limp                            like marionettes slides up to a good posture and the everything rises                             and blooms All is well-enough Not to do any-thing Sit back a relax People crave the expected, Give em' the song and dance act: Unseal her, let the air out Pretend her hair is different Let the left-over shape mean something Make it the secret of Life Cue the yellow hue live your memories in a fuzzy lens Slow the images, it's raining sunshine Demi-god celebrities play your part you're the star be able to keep your heart                                                  in one place                                                           lock it up Take a pause. . . . . . Hit the spotlight, change the focus, transfer the weight                 shift                       the                             burden Wide     eyed     shot dark shadows back alleys open veins american pulp love with an insanity twist Make the events your life dislocate the easiness                      Cut to the bed                                 torn to shreds Blood slow on the back, warm wine on the wrist all reddened by friction Drop           Strange the angle change dunce cap and a corner prayer                         the catharsis framework Go back to the clear cut beginning-end                crawl through the webbed nothingness                             the vapor of conversation                                   reality pushed upon                                                    the drooling stranger through the bedroom window               eyes like a bone-saw, artificial Pity him Become him Time has been extended over the back-lit stage          a lucky break waking up with an adrenaline needle in your chest          a resuscitation                  Take the life from the shelf               Contradict yourself, very well, Contradict yourself     Make the impossible concrete, the unreal cities grow like roses               Cut to Black rip a hole for light, you're gonna need it                      Role the credits, see the forgotten names which mean forgotten faces you've hung on sit in the dark clap to yourself         to this far away distraction you're the hero and you've made it make sense in the rearrangement                               of                                                blood                                                love                                        and voyeurism
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Apr 6, 2011
Apr 6, 2011 at 8:25 AM UTC
The Film Over the Eye
Opens with some lucidity after the world has gone limp                            like marionettes slides up to a good posture and the everything rises                             and blooms All is well-enough Not to do any-thing Sit back a relax People crave the expected, Give em' the song and dance act: Unseal her, let the air out Pretend her hair is different Let the left-over shape mean something Make it the secret of Life Cue the yellow hue live your memories in a fuzzy lens Slow the images, it's raining sunshine Demi-god celebrities play your part you're the star be able to keep your heart                                                  in one place                                                           lock it up Take a pause. . . . . . Hit the spotlight, change the focus, transfer the weight                 shift                       the                             burden Wide     eyed     shot dark shadows back alleys open veins american pulp love with an insanity twist Make the events your life dislocate the easiness                      Cut to the bed                                 torn to shreds Blood slow on the back, warm wine on the wrist all reddened by friction Drop           Strange the angle change dunce cap and a corner prayer                         the catharsis framework Go back to the clear cut beginning-end                crawl through the webbed nothingness                             the vapor of conversation                                   reality pushed upon                                                    the drooling stranger through the bedroom window               eyes like a bone-saw, artificial Pity him Become him Time has been extended over the back-lit stage          a lucky break waking up with an adrenaline needle in your chest          a resuscitation                  Take the life from the shelf               Contradict yourself, very well, Contradict yourself     Make the impossible concrete, the unreal cities grow like roses               Cut to Black rip a hole for light, you're gonna need it                      Role the credits, see the forgotten names which mean forgotten faces you've hung on sit in the dark clap to yourself         to this far away distraction you're the hero and you've made it make sense in the rearrangement                               of                                                blood                                                love                                        and voyeurism
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Dear Poetry, I left you for a month. I’ve ignored you so much but I’m sorry. I need you, you’ve help me when the going gets tough. You’ve helped me when all the sentences and phrases I say don’t unseal or make any general sense, You’ve helped me express myself When I am just a speechless coward and When I have no audacity to speak for my own conscience. You give them a home, All my mixed emotions and letters You call them poetry. Sense full or senseless Forgive me, I need you, I need you more than before.
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Apr 19, 2018
Apr 19, 2018 at 2:42 AM UTC
Dear Poetry, I’m Sorry.
You know that moment, when you’re tired. Tired and frustrated of actually nothing. You think what’s wrong with you, but that moment, you just want to go to your room, away from everyone and everything and let everything out. You’re so tangled in your thoughts that you just want to lie down and think and then you start having those scary thoughts, which make you feel confined. You seal yourself in your room and think of murdering your mind, for it talks too much. You unseal your room and decide to go for a walk. You walk, you jog, but both, your mind and your heart start fighting so loudly that you stop. You stop, and ask them to shut up, but the civil war inside your body never does. You decide to leave everything away and start afresh, you do. You change your city, you change your address, you keep changing everything, until you realise that past will always be permanent. For your, thoughts, will always haunt you, making you, the prisoners of your past, until you start sharing, until you start talking. Your heart may weep at night, your eyes may bleed in the morning, your ruthless brain may say it’s all gonna be okay, you may feel that you’re buried five feet under your thoughts, without a coffin, nothing will be okay, until you start talking, start sharing. You’re so engrossed in your thoughts that you do not hear the honking of the car, until the driver comes out and shakes your body. For maybe, you’ve left your past behind, but the past would never leave you. You’d drown yourself in the ocean of thoughts sailing in the ship of tequila, until it te quils you. -@enchantingnachokitten
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Oct 6, 2018
Oct 6, 2018 at 6:20 AM UTC
i'm tired, of nothing
You know that moment, when you’re tired. Tired and frustrated of actually nothing. You think what’s wrong with you, but that moment, you just want to go to your room, away from everyone and everything and let everything out. You’re so tangled in your thoughts that you just want to lie down and think and then you start having those scary thoughts, which make you feel confined. You seal yourself in your room and think of murdering your mind, for it talks too much. You unseal your room and decide to go for a walk. You walk, you jog, but both, your mind and your heart start fighting so loudly that you stop. You stop, and ask them to shut up, but the civil war inside your body never does. You decide to leave everything away and start afresh, you do. You change your city, you change your address, you keep changing everything, until you realise that past will always be permanent. For your, thoughts, will always haunt you, making you, the prisoners of your past, until you start sharing, until you start talking. Your heart may weep at night, your eyes may bleed in the morning, your ruthless brain may say it’s all gonna be okay, you may feel that you’re buried five feet under your thoughts, without a coffin, nothing will be okay, until you start talking, start sharing. You’re so engrossed in your thoughts that you do not hear the honking of the car, until the driver comes out and shakes your body. For maybe, you’ve left your past behind, but the past would never leave you. You’d drown yourself in the ocean of thoughts sailing in the ship of tequila, until it te quils you. -@enchantingnachokitten
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You are to be found far and wide within Me and out, flowing through veins, inundating Entirety. Ancient drops of you concealed In stars released through showering debris, Rendering existence possible, your absence Intolerable, instincts in eternal search of you. Intimacy in little opaque cabins made of glass, Ceramic tubs, algae basins, riverbeds, by shores Where feet don’t touch, blanketing granular materials, Silicon dioxide in the form of insoluble quartz, calcium Carbonate from shells and skeletons of organisms, Corals and molluscs losing you forever, stranded in deserts. I allow you all for you know how, to gently Lick and lap thirsty skins, totality of my body Hankering after vital substance as you take control Of me, manipulating vibrations with mastery, unaware Of your nature, crucial lymph, my only lover, Forcefully penetrating cavities and pores. I shut my eyes to your caress, yearning For profundity, melting desiring fusion as I unseal my lips to drink of you, inebriating The perfect system longing to redefine Itself through absorption, recognising Its consistency, you within and out. Your power soothes my consciousness, heals My ills, paces my movement as your sound Orchestrates, my heartbeat and breath to The rhythm of universal quantum. You are old. Billions of years constantly mutate your state From ice to vapours, though I crave for you most In liquid form.
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Oct 18, 2017
Oct 18, 2017 at 1:56 AM UTC
Liquid Memory
Take my soul, crushed in your palms you quiver with enjoyment, as you feel it slip through in between your fingers Unworthy of my smile I laugh instead, praying deep down within that things would return the same. The anger flares and swells through my veins, memory by memory my pulse reaches closer to its ****** Your voice whispers untold lies, but all I hear is screaming. Are we all meant to be empty handed? Now I’m not coming back, I’m just chasing, what I can't reach. Clenching to a unrepeatable memory, the grasp gets more difficult to keep intact I thought this died so long ago, but reoccurring shame eats me. Wounds unseal, bleeding so much more then ever. Hold me as it flows.
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Jun 5, 2013
Jun 5, 2013 at 2:55 AM UTC
Falling With Wings
Gesundheit; Just looked back over the letters I never sent There were so many of them I can always start but seldom finish Not just innuendo, trust me, I wish that it were That would be a better problem to have Grandfather ambled about, In some strokes standing as still as a Clock and waiting for me to Wind him. I didn't just then, Too rusted. Peered through the blinds, Some light spilled in, I sunk further Under the covers like Nosferatu, Dracula, accurate. Demon. Eventually he left me to My slumber again but the Tranquility was disturbed, ****** left the lid to the coffin Wide open. Later I shifted about, Slinking around different eaves, Trying to disappear From the frames of any Francophilic voyeurs, I can never find them Though I know they're always there Later still returning to the Origin point of that morning Finding grandmother now occupying That plot where I bury and unseal and bury again She asked if she should leave But I assured her I'd tell her Were that ever the case Though I surely wouldn't: She's sensitive like I am, She knows all the signs from her youth abroad Her mother alternating between Stints of fox and hare in as Many rapid cycles of the phases of the moon Tareyton smoke drifting over The damp gardens of tea leaves She read for prophecies always Served to keep her steady until They walled her up in a mattress room Some of us aren't designed for this place The coveted excuse of genes, These weaknesses are inherited traits A return call from the doctor Too distracted to find a pen
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Jul 15, 2019
Jul 15, 2019 at 4:54 PM UTC
Christopher Lee (Some Of You Might Know Him Better As Saruman)
Gesundheit; Just looked back over the letters I never sent There were so many of them I can always start but seldom finish Not just innuendo, trust me, I wish that it were That would be a better problem to have Grandfather ambled about, In some strokes standing as still as a Clock and waiting for me to Wind him. I didn't just then, Too rusted. Peered through the blinds, Some light spilled in, I sunk further Under the covers like Nosferatu, Dracula, accurate. Demon. Eventually he left me to My slumber again but the Tranquility was disturbed, ****** left the lid to the coffin Wide open. Later I shifted about, Slinking around different eaves, Trying to disappear From the frames of any Francophilic voyeurs, I can never find them Though I know they're always there Later still returning to the Origin point of that morning Finding grandmother now occupying That plot where I bury and unseal and bury again She asked if she should leave But I assured her I'd tell her Were that ever the case Though I surely wouldn't: She's sensitive like I am, She knows all the signs from her youth abroad Her mother alternating between Stints of fox and hare in as Many rapid cycles of the phases of the moon Tareyton smoke drifting over The damp gardens of tea leaves She read for prophecies always Served to keep her steady until They walled her up in a mattress room Some of us aren't designed for this place The coveted excuse of genes, These weaknesses are inherited traits A return call from the doctor Too distracted to find a pen
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Deep in the forest I unclothe myself Unwrap the canvas from my left foot; right foot Step into layers of cotton, silk and wood To be alone here is not similar to back then Walk over to the dimly lit branches And climb inside the home waiting for me Made of mud, sticks, rocks, moss, branches And inside a carved chair sits entirely still I roam the woods at once when my eyes are stirred from sleep I lay my palms upon the bark of wild berry trees And **** the nectar from the queen of all the bees Finding comfort in a nature both the dry spells and the steam My body is not a temple, my body is not a trap My body is cells and bones and skin With love inside of that Nature nurtures to my heart, my soul is kept miles apart So only in the deepest woods will I unseal the soul I struck With golden chains and silver locks to save me from the world The suffering of the world I stay inside the woods today, I stay inside the woods tomorrow I have not forgotten the woods at all, although my heart has been hallowed I hide between the bushes and I sit in the carved chair The one that you carved for me years ago and decided to put in there Things are weary since you've gone, left the forest all alone But I still feel your spirit flying near me as it has been all along Deep in the forest I soothe my own wounds I treat my own burns, I pick my own scars But only once they have fully healed I am all the things I do to others until others disappear And then I am what's inside of me and that's what you'll find here
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Feb 12, 2013
Feb 12, 2013 at 6:02 PM UTC
Foresteer
Deep in the forest I unclothe myself Unwrap the canvas from my left foot; right foot Step into layers of cotton, silk and wood To be alone here is not similar to back then Walk over to the dimly lit branches And climb inside the home waiting for me Made of mud, sticks, rocks, moss, branches And inside a carved chair sits entirely still I roam the woods at once when my eyes are stirred from sleep I lay my palms upon the bark of wild berry trees And **** the nectar from the queen of all the bees Finding comfort in a nature both the dry spells and the steam My body is not a temple, my body is not a trap My body is cells and bones and skin With love inside of that Nature nurtures to my heart, my soul is kept miles apart So only in the deepest woods will I unseal the soul I struck With golden chains and silver locks to save me from the world The suffering of the world I stay inside the woods today, I stay inside the woods tomorrow I have not forgotten the woods at all, although my heart has been hallowed I hide between the bushes and I sit in the carved chair The one that you carved for me years ago and decided to put in there Things are weary since you've gone, left the forest all alone But I still feel your spirit flying near me as it has been all along Deep in the forest I soothe my own wounds I treat my own burns, I pick my own scars But only once they have fully healed I am all the things I do to others until others disappear And then I am what's inside of me and that's what you'll find here
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I’ve seen too much from behind these lids. I've learned that the dark is no place I can rest. It shows me everything that hides, or is hid, Inside every pulse within others foul heads. I flinch at any kindness like it's going to bite. For not every smile is given to me to stay. I keep my room the brightest at night— So, when I see me, I won't look away. My body is here, I think. Maybe in part. But rest is somewhere I left, unclaimed. I built shrines of silence inside my heart, Where I hid my echo and gave it a name. When I am asked, why I never sleep, A version of me steps in front just to lie. Cause sleep is a place that's way too deep, For someone who feels like they already died. I’ve felt myself moving under my skin— I'm an actor mouthing some borrowed truth. I close up and break. The thoughts swarm in. As I choke on even their quietest proof. I stay wide awake thinking pain will pass. It doesn't. It stayed here and laid in my bed. My comfort is a window of shattered glass— It never begs me to fix my fractured head. I taught myself how to speak under pause, And how not to feel, with blood and meds. You know love exists? Then show me the clause, Stating “nothing that lives, is punished when dead.” I almost opened my heart once. And It burned. Not with fire—just light I knew I shouldn’t touch. You say your worth trust? Well see if it returns, If you abandon it like faith and leave it untouched. I wish I knew how not to leave my own trail. But my presence cuts the air, and I can’t pretend. I stitch it back together, each time I inhale, My own conscious effort to draw my next breath. These eyes must stay open. That’s the only rule. So I count every crack in the wall and the door. My heartbeats break open. My bloods in a pool. Not so much now, but that used to mean more. Might as well be the door, I will not unseal. Or the me in the mirror would start turning away. Cause to truly open up, would make it too real. And nothing that's real in my life, ever stayed. So never again, will I close my eyes. Keep your strong skin. And I’ll keep the scars. I swallowed a lock; in my chest it resides. And never again, will I open my heart.
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Jun 2, 2025
Jun 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM UTC
And Never Again
I’ve seen too much from behind these lids. I've learned that the dark is no place I can rest. It shows me everything that hides, or is hid, Inside every pulse within others foul heads. I flinch at any kindness like it's going to bite. For not every smile is given to me to stay. I keep my room the brightest at night— So, when I see me, I won't look away. My body is here, I think. Maybe in part. But rest is somewhere I left, unclaimed. I built shrines of silence inside my heart, Where I hid my echo and gave it a name. When I am asked, why I never sleep, A version of me steps in front just to lie. Cause sleep is a place that's way too deep, For someone who feels like they already died. I’ve felt myself moving under my skin— I'm an actor mouthing some borrowed truth. I close up and break. The thoughts swarm in. As I choke on even their quietest proof. I stay wide awake thinking pain will pass. It doesn't. It stayed here and laid in my bed. My comfort is a window of shattered glass— It never begs me to fix my fractured head. I taught myself how to speak under pause, And how not to feel, with blood and meds. You know love exists? Then show me the clause, Stating “nothing that lives, is punished when dead.” I almost opened my heart once. And It burned. Not with fire—just light I knew I shouldn’t touch. You say your worth trust? Well see if it returns, If you abandon it like faith and leave it untouched. I wish I knew how not to leave my own trail. But my presence cuts the air, and I can’t pretend. I stitch it back together, each time I inhale, My own conscious effort to draw my next breath. These eyes must stay open. That’s the only rule. So I count every crack in the wall and the door. My heartbeats break open. My bloods in a pool. Not so much now, but that used to mean more. Might as well be the door, I will not unseal. Or the me in the mirror would start turning away. Cause to truly open up, would make it too real. And nothing that's real in my life, ever stayed. So never again, will I close my eyes. Keep your strong skin. And I’ll keep the scars. I swallowed a lock; in my chest it resides. And never again, will I open my heart.
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At twenty five I threw myself through bonfires, looking for a life beyond the wood smoke angel. I would drink a tenth bottle, & curse the heart repeating like a stuck needle in the black groove of years. Past the burning rye at the edge of the wood cars never stopped moving, white pulses dropping into the well of the far distance, folding into the yellow chambers. I cancelled myself quietly on the dark porch corner in the watery night. Then a dozen years were thrown across my life. It's not possible to explain everything. But know that I played roulette with the sun. I broke the moon with song & repaired it with verse. I filled my palms with grass & drank the greenness. I hurt, terribly, a breaking sleep. I lived underneath a residual shine. And then you, my ace of cups. I lay in the secret rectangle while you told me of the snow brothel. I watched metal birds slouch the sky. I walked the theater of the lawn and found you laughing. Darling, those years delivered me to you like a letter. If you unseal me, everything you find inside is yours.
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Apr 5, 2019
Apr 5, 2019 at 1:11 PM UTC
12 Years
TLACAELEL The weeks since last we met found Hungry Prince Of late locked in his tower, casting scrolls Which chart the star-crossed charms of the occult. And in the predawn darkness of his arts, He broke through to a voice from the beyond Which whispered that the throne of Mexico Must soon come to be ruled by foreigners. PRIEST OF TLALOC And thus the emperor submits to trial, And these, their wagers, are red herrings, then. TLACAELEL To spare us the demoralizing news. The spirits’ hands will steer them to reveal If this prognostication failed or not. PRIEST OF TLALOC The ***** in motion. Let the gods decide. TLACAELEL Motecuhzoma falls! The ball is down! The ball is down! PRIEST OF TLALOC Dust rises, and our lord is lost to view! TLACAELEL Three in a row! Were we left hanging, then, For torturers to **** by small and small? MOTECUHZOMA and HUNGRY PRINCE reappear. MOTECUHZOMA [aside] I’ve lost then, but the full significance Of that word “lost” I’ve yet begun to know. Gods need not lie, and here we have their words. Well, let it come. [to Tlacaelel] Unseal the wagers, lord, And read before these noble witnesses The stakes we trusted to you at the serve. TLACAELEL First, the abortive fee for Hungry Prince: King of Texcoco, had this victory Been won by his imperial majesty, And you had failed, your forfeiture had been . . . [Opens the first wager.] The loss of all your lands, your courts, your throne, And all, for your opponent’s acquisition, Decoronation to a common man, And forced prostration to this gentleman. HUNGRY PRINCE A staggering ransom! I must thank the gods, Not for their championing me, but truth.
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Oct 13, 2016
Oct 13, 2016 at 4:14 PM UTC
The Floral War 1:5:39-71
TLACAELEL The weeks since last we met found Hungry Prince Of late locked in his tower, casting scrolls Which chart the star-crossed charms of the occult. And in the predawn darkness of his arts, He broke through to a voice from the beyond Which whispered that the throne of Mexico Must soon come to be ruled by foreigners. PRIEST OF TLALOC And thus the emperor submits to trial, And these, their wagers, are red herrings, then. TLACAELEL To spare us the demoralizing news. The spirits’ hands will steer them to reveal If this prognostication failed or not. PRIEST OF TLALOC The ***** in motion. Let the gods decide. TLACAELEL Motecuhzoma falls! The ball is down! The ball is down! PRIEST OF TLALOC Dust rises, and our lord is lost to view! TLACAELEL Three in a row! Were we left hanging, then, For torturers to **** by small and small? MOTECUHZOMA and HUNGRY PRINCE reappear. MOTECUHZOMA [aside] I’ve lost then, but the full significance Of that word “lost” I’ve yet begun to know. Gods need not lie, and here we have their words. Well, let it come. [to Tlacaelel] Unseal the wagers, lord, And read before these noble witnesses The stakes we trusted to you at the serve. TLACAELEL First, the abortive fee for Hungry Prince: King of Texcoco, had this victory Been won by his imperial majesty, And you had failed, your forfeiture had been . . . [Opens the first wager.] The loss of all your lands, your courts, your throne, And all, for your opponent’s acquisition, Decoronation to a common man, And forced prostration to this gentleman. HUNGRY PRINCE A staggering ransom! I must thank the gods, Not for their championing me, but truth.
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Getting too cold for walking this way, Getting too old from playing these games. Sweat on my hands expose my emotions, Revealing my secrets, showing my motives. Ticking bombs going off, When they laugh and scoff. They don’t see it, they don’t feel it. They lock it away until they unseal it. Being lost in life doesn’t mean, You have to find your way to be seen. Pain will eternally follow you, So don’t let it be the end of you. Can’t fall asleep, I’m too tired of me. Wishing for my dreams to become realities. I know they are far, I know they are distant. But I can’t just ignore the feelings deep from within. Wishing I was better, wishing I was stronger, No one to read letters, no one to honor. Fallen mistakes only get worse, Exactly the same, exactly diverse. They say humans speak so many words, But I’m only screaming from how much it hurts. Yeah I talk all the time, with hope, with doubt. But only if my whispering conscience counts.
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Jan 1, 2018
Jan 1, 2018 at 7:22 PM UTC
Old
the Rose that grew from concrete... the delicate face of a fragile beauty... guarded by some tough exterior - dutifully unacknowledged. indeed, achieved a great a feat but still buried underneath their feet. everyday trodden; not once a chance to thrive - effects of a circadian stampede. A Rose that grew for a simple life, but the beauty within had died. Her leaves she let wilt, took every blow she was dealt - dull thorns now to speak for. color drained with a droopy stem, wishing away dark clouds so then maybe she would See more. Rose. could she have had it all? her existence left her nothing. party of one and the place is full of Rocks. a stand-alone soldier in a grave situation; the hurt wouldn't stop coming; should we pray for such mercies? she figures... no singular mercy could unseal her fate the blade of society is sharp and against her soft petals it continuously scrape ...when you've felt one pain you've felt them all. senseless emotions trigger moisture in the stigma finally a drop of color - to the concrete it would fall rich red like the Flower that once cracked those gray walls.
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Feb 8, 2020
Feb 8, 2020 at 1:03 AM UTC
I killed the Rose.